On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 11:06 -0700, Casper Bang wrote:
> Microsoft added stuff to their version of Java (delegates...), while
> removing other things (JNI...), which Anders Hejlsberg thought were a
> terrible mess. Microsoft was eventually forced to name it J++ and show
> a disclaimer that this wasn't Java... essentially forcing Microsoft to
> go back to the drawing board and come up with what would eventually
> becomes C#. Since then, a lot of other stuff has shown up in
> "Microsoft's version of Java" only to be added to the official Java
> later (enum's, annotation etc.), lately it's dynamic language support,
> automatic resource management, lambda expressions etc.

So will Oracle remove type erasure so that full type information is
available at runtime?

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